Bedstead attachment



. Novf 11 1924. 1515,473

M. A. FRECHIN BEDSTEAD ATTACHMENT Filed Oct. 13. 192?.

provided with grips or handles 12.

Patented Nov. 11, 1924.

LSESAB i if MARGARET A. FRECHIN, OF GIRARD, KANSAS.

BEDSTEAD ATTACHMENT.

Application filed October 13, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that MARGARET A. FRnoHIN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Grirard, in the county of Crawford and State ofKansas, has invented new and useful Improvements in BedsteadAttachments, of which the following is a specitication.

The object of the invention is to provide a lifting attachment forbedsteads as a means of enabling the patient occupying the bed to assistthe attendant in raising and moving the patient or to enable the patientto change his position or to rise to a sitting posture withoutassistance and without such exertion as to be objectionable; and withthese objects in view the invention consists in a construction andcombination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in theaccompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view of a lifting deviceembodying the invention applied in the operative position to a bedstead.

Figure 2 is a cross sectional view of the same.

The device consists essentially of a bar 10 extending longitudinally ofthe bedstead and having carried thereby across head 11 As illustratedthe cross head is slidingly or movably mounted upon the bar which is ofa length substantially equal to the bedstead and extends from theheadboard to the footboard thereof, but obviously the cross head may besecured or located in a fixed relation to the rod if preferred.

To the end that the bar may be applied to and removed from the bedsteadaccording t whether it is needed or not to permit of Serial No. 594,272.

dispensing of the same when it is desired to make up the bed, it isprovided with terminal supports consisting of brackets having upwardlyconvergent arms 13 united at their meeting ends to provide sockets 14for the adjacent ends of the bar and provided at their lower remote endswith clamps 15 for engagement with the uprights or posts of the bedsteadhead. and foot.

Obviously by grasping the grips or handles the patient may assistmaterially in rising to a sitting posture or in turning or moving on thebed, to thereby dispense with the services of or materially relieve theattendant or nurse in affording the patient the desired service, and yetthe apparatus when not required or when the patient is not in acondition to use the same may readily be detached and stored.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is Apatient lifting device for bedsteads comprising a bar for extensionlongitudinally of the bedstead on a transverse median line, terminalsupporting brackets consisting of upwardly convergent arms provided withmeans for engaging the extremities of the bars at their meeting ends,said brackets at their remote ends being provided with clamps forengaging the inner sides of the corner posts of the bedstead, and acrosshead slidably mounted upon the bar and provided with grips orhandles within grasping distance of the occupant of the bed.

In testimony whereof she affixes her signature.

MARGARET A. FRECHIN.

